Did you know...
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Haitian-born New Yorker Pierre Toussaint was a noted 18th and 19th century philanthropist, who is slated to become North America's first Black saint.
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Hundreds of free Haitian men fought on the American side in the siege of Savannah during the American Revolutionary War in 1779.
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The Louisiana Purchase was facilitated by the Haitian Revolution. It was prompted by Napoleon's loss of liberated Haiti, which caused the French leader to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States in 1803.
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Free Haitians of color helped to double the population of New Orleans in the early 19th century, when 10,000 moved to the city by the end of the first decade of the 1800s.
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Frederick Douglass was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Haiti by President Benjamin Harrison, serving from 1889 until 1891.
